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Whether you’re a parent new to coaching or an experienced youth coach, Coaching Youth Football is your handbook for a successful season. Through the expertise of former NFL coach and current AYF president Joe Galat and American Youth Football, you’ll gain field-tested tips on running your team, communicating with and handling players, providing basic first aid, planning and conducting practices, drawing up plays, and keeping it all fun.

© 2010
248 pages
ISBN-13:780736085663

Product Description
Endorsed by American Youth Football, the largest football organization in the country, Coaching Youth Football is a great introduction to teaching youth the valuable skills they need to play football. From communicating as a coach and providing for your players’ safety to teaching offensive and defensive skills and tactics, the book provides all of the information you need to help 8- to 14-year-olds learn and enjoy the game of football.

As part of ASEP’s long-running Coaching Youth Sport series, this fifth edition features updated information and an enhanced section about players’ safety on the field, including new information on concussion from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In addition, this book includes more than 40 new drills, games, and coaching tips to make practices fun and practical throughout the season. Fundamentals of offense, defense, and special teams are covered in depth, supported by a total of more than 70 drills and over 60 photos and illustrations.

Ideal for coaches of players ages 14 and under, this book is also a valuable component of the Coaching Youth Football online course, the official course of AYF offered by the American Sport Education Program. With this book, coaches will create an environment that promotes learning, enjoyment, and motivation so that players will come out for the team year after year.

Contents:
Welcome to Coaching
Welcome From American Youth Football
Foreword
Key to Diagrams
Drill Finder

Chapter 1 Stepping Into Coaching
Chapter 2 Communicating as a Coach
Chapter 3 Understanding Rules and Equipment
Chapter 4 Providing for Players’ Safety
Chapter 5 Making Practices Fun and Practical
Chapter 6 Teaching and Shaping Skills
Chapter 7 Coaching Offense
Chapter 8 Coaching Defense
Chapter 9 Coaching Special Teams
Chapter 10 Coaching on Game Day
Chapter 11 Developing Season and Practice Plans

Audiences
A resource for youth football coaches (ages 14 and younger), parents of youth football players, and youth football players.

About the Author
Joe Galat serves as the president of AYF. He is also employed by FieldTurf Tarkett as vice president of sales and dean of the FieldTurf Sports Science Institute. Joe’s leadership began early as captain of the Harvey High School (Painesville, Ohio) and Miami University (Ohio) football and wrestling teams. At Miami University, he was elected president of the Varsity Letterman’s Club and was named Outstanding Student Athlete in his senior year. Playing honors included selections to the All-Ohio All-Star High School Team and All-Mid-American Conference. Joe’s football experience was honed by some of the game’s greats: Bo Schembechler, Carm Cozza, and John McVay. When Pro Football Hall of Fame coach George Allen was owner of Montreal, he appointed Joe to be his head coach. Joe then went on to become head coach and general manager of the British Columbia Lions of the Canadian Football League. He coached college football at Miami University, Yale University, University of Kentucky, and Youngstown State University. In 1982, Joe was inducted into the Miami University Hall of Fame. He was also inducted into the Painesville Harvey High School Hall of Fame (along with the NFL's winningest coach, Don Shula). After his coaching days, Joe was national color commentator for CBC-TV Sports. This experience gave him the distinction of having held every position in organized football (player, coach, manager, broadcaster, and youth executive). Joe has participated in youth football clinics in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and throughout Europe and Russia. Joe was also honored as a Kentucky Colonel by Governor Wendell Ford.

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